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Conroe Oak Ridge 5-star OL Tyler Johnson commits to Texas

Conroe Oak Ridge 5-star OL Tyler Johnson commits to Texas
Johnson is the nation's No. 7 ranked player at his respective position Vype

The Texas Longhorns picked up a monster commitment from 247Sports five-star offensive tackle Tyler Johnson over the weekend. The Nation's No. 7 ranked player at his respective position chose the burnt orange over a plethora of elite college programs.

Johnson's pledge moves Tom Herman's program into the top 15 of the 247Sports team recruiting rankings. Texas has been successful at Oak Ridge lately as they also signed elite 2018 defensive end Joseph Ossai in February.

At 6-5, 308-pounds, the first-team all-district selection is currently the highest rated Longhorn pledge in the 2019 class.

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Jake Meyers is the latest Astro to be rushed back from injury too soon. Photo by Tim Warner/Getty Images.

Houston center fielder Jake Meyers was removed from Wednesday night’s game against Cleveland during pregame warmups because of right calf tightness.

Meyers, who had missed the last two games with a right calf injury, jogged onto the field before the game but soon summoned the training staff, who joined him on the field to tend to him. He remained on the field on one knee as manager Joe Espada joined the group. After a couple minutes, Meyers got up and was helped off the field and to the tunnel in right field by a trainer.

Mauricio Dubón moved from shortstop to center field and Zack Short entered the game to replace Dubón at shortstop.

Meyers is batting .308 with three homers and 21 RBIs this season.

After the game, Meyers met with the media and spoke about the injury. Meyers declined to answer when asked if the latest injury feels worse than the one he sustained Sunday. Wow, that is not a good sign.

 

Lack of imaging strikes again!

The Athletic's Chandler Rome reported on Thursday that the Astros didn't do any imaging on Meyers after the initial injury. You can't make this stuff up. This is exactly the kind of thing that has the Astros return-to-play policy under constant scrutiny.

The All-Star break is right around the corner, why take the risk in playing Meyers after missing just two games with calf discomfort? The guy literally fell to the ground running out to his position before the game started. The people that make these risk vs. reward assessments clearly are making some serious mistakes.

The question remains: will the Astros finally do something about it?


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